Brandon Michael Zirk, 27, of Waynesboro, was sentenced in Adams County Court Thursday to between 3½ to 10 years in prison under a plea agreement with the District Attorney's office.

There is no closure for Brenda and Bill Rigby, only lingering pain and loss. And now frustration.

Eight months after their daughter, Angela Rigby, was killed by a drunk driver, the Rigbys are left questioning why the man responsible for her death did not receive a longer prison sentence.

Brandon Michael Zirk, 27, of Waynesboro, was sentenced in Adams County Court Thursday to between 3½ to 10 years in prison under a plea agreement with the Adams County District Attorney's Office. Zirk pleaded guilty in March to homicide by vehicle while under the influence.

But the Rigbys say the sentence is not nearly long enough, noting that Zirk will be able to resume his life after his prison term.

"They say it is manslaughter, I say it is murder," Bill Rigby said after the sentencing hearing. "He gets away with murder.

"We were kind of hoping they'd push the sentence a bit higher for what he did," Rigby said. "I think the law needs to be looked at and adjusted."

Zirk was on probation for driving under the influence when he swerved over the centerline and crashed head-on into Angela Rigby's 2005 Suzuki on Route 30 in Franklin Township on Sept. 14. Rigby, of Fairfield, was pronounced dead at the scene.

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According to police reports, Zirk was driving his black Ford Explorer relecklessly and had sideswiped another vehicle just prior to the accident.

Zirk told police he drank two 24-ounce beers on his way home from work Sept. 14, then drank another beer at the Moose Lodge in Gettysburg before heading home toward Waynesboro, according to court documents. He was belligerent with EMS personnel when police arrived at the scene, documents state. He was arrested there and later found to have a blood-alcohol content of 0.18, more than twice the limit at which Pennsylvania drivers are presumed intoxicated.

Thursday, Zirk's attorney, James Stein, spoke for his client and offered an apology to Rigby's family.

But Bill Rigby said Zirk had many opportunities to prevent the accident, noting that Zirk's mother had begged him not to drive that evening.

"Nobody forced him to drink. Nobody forced him to get in that car and drive off," Bill Rigby said. "If there had been stiffer penalties, maybe my daughter would still be with me."

An Army veteran, Angela Rigby, 33, had opened the Red, White and Beautiful Salon in Fairfield just a year prior to the accident. She loved animals and also left behind a brother and a 10-year-old daughter, Dasani.

"It's tough to get her to smile now a days," Brenda Rigby said about Dasani.

The Rigbys have placed a white cross on the side of Route 30 where the accident Occurred and they have approached the Department of Transportation about using their story and pictures in its efforts to combat drunk driving.

"It will be tough to see it but it will give us strength to get this awareness out," Brenda Rigby said.